Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. music A small synthesizer operated using a stylus.
Etymologies
- stylo- + -phone (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Here Dr K corrects a heinous Academy oversight with the help of a stylophone …. more about "Mark Kermode Offers MOON Tribute | Ma …", posted with vodpod”
“Little Boots – Meddle (bedroom version – acoustic on piano, tenorion and stylophone oo la la)”
“Polygraph Lounge is an underground music/comedy duo from New York City, founded by multi-instrumentalists Rob Schwimmer (piano, theramin stylophone, claviola) and Mark Stewart (daxophone, trombadoo, chaladoo), a gifted guitarist who plays with the great Paul Simon.”
“I also own a stylophone, a berimbau and a zither, none of which I can play convincingly.”
“But all my co-workers said it sounded like a stylophone, I think I need to play with those sliders more.”
“They're under $40 iirc and remind me of the stylophone -- very toy-ish but not completely disposable junk either.”
“Featured vintage instruments including the wurlizter, harmonium and stylophone added to the organic, minimal production from Greenwald and Mathes make a glorious concoction.”
“Rolf, who made a career out of encouraging children to draw cartoon characters while performing hits on the stylophone and the wobbleboard, got back in to art almost accidentally.”
“Kylie's twin play piano, Tenori-on and stylophone, write songs, sing and look stylish all in one?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stylophone’.
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phono-, phon-, -phony
relating to sound
phonograph, phonics, phonology, telephony, phoneme, phone, telephone, phonautograph, phonetic, phonebook, phonography, phonolite and 107 more...
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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Style
A family of terms containing the string *styl that suggest a sense of something columnar or pointed.
Words containing styl- denoting a mode of expression or fashion are excluded from t...monimostylic, streptostylic, styloid, hypostyle, stylet, stylographic, stylobate, peristyle, stylites, metrostyle, peristylium, anastylosis and 32 more...
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sonic
daxophone, quintephone, plasmaphone, electrocardiophone, dumb hole, singing Tesla coil, ousiograph, Shepard tone, idiophone, popcorn noise, contrafact, whistler and 24 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for stylophone.
seanahan Yes, because iPhone itself was already trademarked by Cisco. May 30, 2009
john The name Apple originally wanted for the iPhone*, but were prevented from using because of the trademarks on this fantastic little instrument.
* lie May 28, 2009